DR Movie - Television Tropes & Idioms

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DR Movie is a South Korean Animation studio (Offices also exist in Los Angeles, California and Tokyo, Japan). First established in 1990 and bought by Madhouse close to a decade later (having done work with them beforehand). The studio mainly specializes in In-Between animation, Ink & Paint and CG Animation for Anime and North American animation. Their clients aside from Madhouse have included Studio Ghibli, GONZO, Sunrise, TMS Entertainment, Sony and Warner Bros..

They've recently ventured out to work with Chinese companies, making it highly possible to see co-productions with either Hong Ying or Wang Film Productions sometime in the future.

See also Toon City, Production I.G, Rough Draft Studios and Digital eMation who alongside GONZO, use CG in their animation and AKOM, JM Animation, Dong Woo Animation, Sunwoo Entertainment, Saerom and Hanho Heung-Up, other South Korean animation studios (JM and Dong Woo also having worked on Anime). Their website can be found here

North American Projects DR Movie animated include:

Avatar The Last Airbender (Early episodes only)
The Batman
Big Guy And Rusty The Boy Robot (Opening and 2 episodes)
Godzilla: The Series (plus the opening)
Justice League
Men In Black
Redakai: Conquer the Kairu (With Digital eMation)
Teen Titans
X-Men: Evolution (Madhouse episodes only)
The Zeta Project

Anime worked on by DR Movie include:

A Channel - Finish & In-between animation
Agent Aika - Finish & In-between animation
Angel Sanctuary - In-between Animation
ARIA - Key & 2nd Key animation, Paint
Beck - Background Art, Finish & In-Between animation, Production Cooperation
Black Cat - Background Art, In-between animation.
Black Lagoon - In-between animation, Tracing, Paint
Bleach - Background Art (as well as Background Art, In-between animation and Paint in Memories of Nobody and The Diamond Dust Rebellion)
Blood+ - In-between animation, Paint
Blue Submarine No. 6 - In-between animation, Paint
Boogiepop Phantom - Key & In-between animation, Ink & Paint
Casshern Sins - Finish and In-between animation, Paint
Code Geass - In-between, Clean up, Key & 2nd key animation
Cowboy Bebop - Paint (In-between animation and tracing in The Movie)
Cyber City Oedo 808 - Finish animation
Death Note - Background Art, Clean up & In-between animation
Devil Hunter Yohko - In-between animation, Paint
Eureka Seven - In-between animation
Flame of Recca - Backgrounds
Gad Guard - Background Art
Gankutsuou - Key, 2nd Key & In-between animation, Paint
Gantz - 2nd Key & In-between animation, Paint
Gate Keepers 21 - Finish Animation
Ghost Hound - In-between Animation
Gungrave - Background Art, Key & In-between animation
Gunslinger Girl - In-between animation
Gun X Sword - Finish animation
Hellsing - Animation
High School Of The Dead - 2nd Key, finish and in-between animation
Ichigo 100% - Backgrounds, Production Cooperation
IGPX Immortal Grand Prix - Key Animation
Iron Man - Production assistance
Kaiba - Key & In-between animation
Kurokami - Production cooperation
Macross Plus - In-between animation
Monster - Animation assistance, Backgrounds, Finish, In-between & Key animation
Najica Blitz Tactics - Animation, Paint
Nana - Background Art, Key & In-between animation, Paint
Naruto Shippuden - Background Art
Ninja Scroll - In-between animation
- Ninja Scroll The Series - Backgrounds, Key & in-between animation, Paint
Noein - In-between animation, Paint
Oh Edo Rocket - 2nd Key, Key, Finish & In-Between Animation, In-Between Supervision, Photography, Special effects
Paradise Kiss - Background Art
Paranoia Agent - Background Art, In-between animation, Tracing, Paint
Pokémon Films:
- Pokémon: The First Movie - In-between animation
- Pokémon 2000 - Clean up & In-between animation
- Pokémon 3 - Finish animation assistance In-between animation
- Pokémon 4Ever - Finish Animation, In-between animation assistance
- Pokémon Heroes - Animation assistance
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew - Animation assistance
- Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions - In-between animation assistance
Real Drive - Finish & In-between animation
Red Line - 2nd Key & In-between animation Cooperation, Paint
Rozen Maiden - Finish & In-between animation
Saber Marionette J - Animation Co-production
Saiyuki - Backgrounds
Samurai 7 - In-between animation
Sonic X - In-between animation, Paint
Supernatural: The Animation - Finish & In-between animation
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - In-between animation
Tenjho Tenge - Animation cooperation
Tokyo Babylon - Animation assistance
Tokyo Godfathers - Finish & In-between animation
Trigun - In-between animation, paint, production cooperation (2nd Key, in-between and finish animation in Badlands Rumble)
Vandread - Animation, Paint
×××HOLiC Kei - In-between animation
X-Men - In-between animation
Yu Yu Hakusho - Finish & In-between animation

Tropes associated with DR Movie:

Animation Bump: Somewhat often.
Conspicuous CG: Particularly with their work for Madhouse (They're called upon for CG in addition to the jobs listed above).
Medium Blending
Off Model: Due to working on several Anime, often at the same time.

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